Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is Missing

test bd said:

In another forum I posted this today about MH370 after a news story from the Philippines claimed pieces of wreckage and skeletal remains were found.

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MH370: Search teams 'looking in the right place', studies say

By Katie Hunt and Rebecca Wright, CNN
Updated 11:13 AM ET, Thu December 3, 2015 | Video Source: CNN

Hong Kong (CNN)Teams searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are looking in the right place, the results of two new independent studies suggest.

The Joint Agency Coordination Center, the Australian government agency in charge of the search, said a new "prioritized" search area in the Indian Ocean had been identified by the new analysis, at the southern end of the existing search zone.

It is significant that the two studies, which had been taking place since the search began and used different methods, reached similar conclusions, the JACC said.

"The new research released today further emphasizes that we are searching in the right direction," Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said at a press conference.

The Australian Defense Science and Technology (DST) Group carried out its analysis using Bayesian methods -- a statistical technique that informs probability -- while aircraft maker Boeing analyzed the possible speed and flight ranges of the plane at different cruise altitudes.

The JACC said that the discovery of the flaperon on Reunion island in July was consistent with the current search area.

In September, French authorities confirmed that the plane part was from the missing flight.

The existing 120,000 square kilometer target area will continue to be "thoroughly searched," the JACC said, an operation that will likely take until June 2016.

To date, around 76,000 square kilometers -- more than 60% of the search area -- has been covered. Truss said that improving weather conditions would make the search easier and the vessels involved would focus on the southern parts of the target area.

Truss added that China is providing a ship that will join the search in January, bringing the total to four.

MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared in the early hours of March 8, 2014, less than an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, en route to Beijing, China.

CNN's David Molko contributed to this report

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Qi_1528 said:

Let's assume the search is able to locate the black and voice recorder boxes. Is there any chance at all anything useful could be recovered after all this time?

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Quickie said:

The data that was stored in the black box memory chips containing all the important information probably should last maybe a decade or more.

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Qi_1528 said:

I read from a quick Google search yesterday that not all the data from the Air France 447 boxes could be recovered a little less than 2 years after the crash. Would that have been a result of damage from the impact itself, or being in salt water for so long?

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no_name said:

What if they used a small laser to etch information on to something corrosion resistant, like what they do with DVDs? Something that can be written over hundreds of times before having to be replaced.

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no_name said:

What if they used a small laser to etch information on to something corrosion resistant, like what they do with DVDs? Something that can be written over hundreds of times before having to be replaced.

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vincent said:

Burnable dvds don't last long at all. The laser is used to turn the dye on the disks to a different colour, not burning holes in them. Depends on the dye used, their colour can fade after a year

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